excellent reading of a classic

Bartleby, the Scrivener

The life of a Scrivener can be a dull one. After all, your entire occupation has to do with the handwritten copying of law documents....

I loved Bartleby

By
Sharon
on
11-04-13

Young Goodman Brown

By:
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by:
B.J. Harrison

Length: 40 mins

Unabridged

Overall

92

Performance

85

Story

86

How long would you walk, if the Devil sauntered up to you of an evening, and journeyed alongside of you?

Perfect

By
LostContacts
on
09-21-17

The Fall of the House of Usher (Dramatized)

By:
Edgar Allan Poe,
Les Crutchfield

Narrated by:
Bill Mills,
Ross Chamberlain

Length: 36 mins

Unabridged

Overall

40

Performance

27

Story

26

Not a mere reading, you will hear wraiths howl, the dead walk, and the massive old House of Usher fall in this unique new audio dramatization based on a classic radio script....

a great dramatization!

By
Taylor
on
09-18-15

The Most Dangerous Game

By:
Richard Connell

Narrated by:
B.J. Harrison

Length: 59 mins

Unabridged

Overall

615

Performance

558

Story

559

A mysterious island, shrouded in fear, evil, and darkness. Here the amoral General Zaroff hunts....

A TRUE COSMOPOLITE

By
Jim "The Impatient"
on
08-02-16

The Raven

By:
Edgar Allen Poe

Narrated by:
Don Aday

Length: 16 mins

Unabridged

Overall

14

Performance

13

Story

13

Edgar Allen Poe's masterful poem, The Raven, is a strange and haunting story of lost love....

Masterpiece

By
Bad Dogma
on
11-23-17

The Birthmark

By:
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by:
Walter Covell

Length: 43 mins

Unabridged

Overall

38

Performance

33

Story

33

A devoted scientist marries a beautiful woman with a single physical flaw: a birthmark on her face....

Bland uninspired

By
William
on
10-02-12

Edgar Allan Poe - The Complete Short Stories

By:
Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by:
Bob Thomley

Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins

Unabridged

Overall

931

Performance

826

Story

830

Here are all of Edgar Allan Poe’s great short stories in one 16-hour collection....

A rare treat.

By
J.G.
on
07-23-11

The Tell-Tale Heart

By:
Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by:
Dermot Kerrigan

Length: 16 mins

Unabridged

Overall

13

Performance

12

Story

13

This is a story from the "Great Ghost Stories" collection....

Wonderful!

By
Kindle Customer
on
11-28-17

The Minister's Black Veil

By:
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by:
Walter Zimmerman

Length: 37 mins

Unabridged

Overall

20

Performance

18

Story

17

A clergyman named Joseph Moody accidentally killed a friend when he was a young man and wore a black veil from the man's funeral until his own death....

One of those "why do I have to read this" books

By
Jack
on
07-14-14

Hop-Frog

By:
Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by:
Chris Lutkin

Length: 27 mins

Unabridged

Overall

2

Performance

2

Story

2

First published in an 1849 edition of The Flag of Our Union, "Hop-Frog" is a revenge tale akin to "The Cask of Amontillado"....

The Yellow Wallpaper

By:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrated by:
Jo Myddleton

Length: 35 mins

Unabridged

Overall

301

Performance

253

Story

251

In this classic late-nineteenth-century story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a new mother suffering from what we might today call 'post-partum depression', is diagnosed with a nervous disorder....

Unnerving and disturbing

By
ESK
on
12-29-13

Rip Van Winkle

By:
Washington Irving

Narrated by:
Curtis Sisco

Length: 37 mins

Unabridged

Overall

173

Performance

146

Story

146

A man who sleeps for 20 years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world....

A HEN PECKED HUSBAND

By
Jim "The Impatient"
on
01-16-17

Editorial Reviews

William Roberts’ eerie, atmospheric performance brilliantly captures the shroud of death and decay that hangs over Poe’s phantasmagorical short story, which takes place in the castle of Prince Prospero as he and 1,000 of his nobles attempt to insulate themselves from a horrific plague, the titular Red Death, but who encounter a mysterious, foreboding figure during an opulent masquerade ball.

Roberts’ stirring rendition of Poe’s classic Gothic tale will surely leave the listener with goose bumps in this riveting audiobook.

Publisher's Summary

This is a story from the Fall of the House of Usher collection.

The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, with its dungeon of death, and the overhanging gloom on the House of Usher demonstrate unforgettably the unique imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. Unerringly, he touches upon some of our greatest nightmares: Premature burial, ghostly transformation, words from beyond the grave. Written in the 1840s, they have retained their power to shock and frighten even now.

Also in this collection of Poe's tales of mystery and imagination: "The Black Cat", "The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar", "The Cask of Amontillado", "Ligeia", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Premature Burial", and "The Raven".

Public Domain (P)2003 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd.

Critic Reviews

"Those who thought only Basil Rathbone could narrate Poe are in for a surprise and a treat. The no-nonsense William Roberts narrates a production mercifully free of frills. No unnecessary music or sound effects interfere with the brilliance of the writing or the purity of the performance." (AudioFile)